planetary
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The Kent Kresa Space Gallery will feature a wide array of spacecraft, planetary probes, telescopes and more.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 13, 2026
"In summary, these results suggest a very carbon-rich, oxygen-poor planetary atmosphere."
From Science Daily • Apr. 6, 2026
“We don’t know because it’s never been done at a planetary scale before,” Webb says.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 6, 2026
The Moon will appear to the astronauts "about the size of a basketball held at arm's length," Noah Petro, head of NASA's planetary geology lab, told AFP.
From Barron's • Apr. 5, 2026
Proper naked-eye observations of novae and comets could produce results incompatible with celestial-sphere astronomy, but these results were irrelevant to planetary predictions.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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